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safely be affirmed that, even if the differences 

 between men are specific, they are so small, that 

 the assumption of more than one primitive stock 

 for all is altogether superfluous. Surely no 

 one can now be found to assert that any two 

 stocks of mankind differ as much as a chim- 

 panzee and an orang do ; still less that they are 

 as unlike as either of these is to any New World 

 Simian ! 



Lastly, the granting of the Polygenist premises 

 does not, in the slightest degree, necessitate the 

 Polygenist conclusion. Admit that Negroes and 

 Australians, Negritos and Mongols are distinct 

 species, or distinct genera, if you will, and you 

 may yet, with perfect consistency, be the strictest 

 of Monogenists, and even believe in Adam and 

 Eve as the primaeval parents of all mankind. 



It is to Mr. Darwin we owe this discovery: it is 

 he who, coming forward in the guise of an eclectic 

 philosopher, presents -his doctrine as the key to 

 ethnology, and as reconciling and combining all 

 that is good in the Monogenistic and Polygenistic 

 schools. It is true that Mr. Darwin has not, in 

 so many words, applied his views to ethnology ; 

 but even he who " runs and reads " the " Origin 

 of Species " can hardly fail to do so ; and, further- 

 .rnore, Mr. Wallace and M. Pouchet have recently 

 treated of ethnological questions from this point 

 of view. Let me, in conclusion, add my own con- 

 tribution to the same store. 



